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NATO Arctic
Global Crises

Is NATO creating an Arctic crisis to placate Trump on Greenland?

The alliance's buildup to confront questionable Russian and Chinese threats lacks the diplomacy necessary to stave off escalation

Marco Rubio Munich Security Conference
Europe

Rubio's spoonful of sugar helps hard medicine go down in Munich

The Secretary of State's message on civilizational renewal and self-reliance wasn't too different than Vance's the year before, but it landed much softer.

Viktor Orban Peter Magyar
Europe

Could this be the election that brings Hungary's Orban down?

The 16-year incumbent faces a center right challenger who supports Ukraine and is more interested in restoring ties with the EU

Us-army-soldiers
Military Industrial Complex

Could the US win a war with a near-peer adversary today?

It's about manpower, material, and most importantly, how we choose to use our military forces. We're doing it all wrong.

G7 Summit
Asia-Pacific

Middle Powers are setting the table so they won't be 'on the menu'

Often crossing continents, 'workarounding' is a strategy allowing states to cooperate on trade and policy outside rigid U.S.-China alignments.

United Nations
Global Crises

We're burying the rules based order. But what's next?

Great power rivalry may actually make multilateral reform more rather than less likely. Here's how.